period, he had been extremely fond. He afterwards, like his uncle Charles, used to play at tennis, and to fish; for, with the same inconsistency, and like many another good man before him (and since) he was an instance of the wonderful effect of habit and education in being able to blink the unanswerable objection that lies at the core of all reasoning on the subject of "sporting;" to wit, the unwarrantableness of any pleasure founded on the infliction of pain. During the last twenty years of his life, his gout conspired with his love of books to render him less and less active, till at last he became wholly confined to his chair; and the disease killed him at the age of sixty-seven.

It has been observed of the Fox face, that it improved with every generation. Lord Holland is described in a contemporary letter

of one of his relations as being very hand

some when a child, and he was comely throughout life. The only objection to be made to his face was, that the nose, though of a manly shape and well-formed, was somewhat too small-a defect to which his friend Napoleon, who thought nothing was to be done but by men with well-developed noses, would have attributed the inactivity that hastened his end. Perhaps it was lucky for the Emperor that his future panegyrist, though he good-humouredly encouraged playful allusions to the defect from his family, was not aware of the great man's opinion in this respect; which has but lately, we believe, transpired. His lordship might have observed, however, that if his life was not so stirring as the great captain's, it was longer, more his own, and had a better end; that his uncle Charles, though he had nose enough to lead a great party, died of a dropsy,

nine years sooner; and that the Emperor himself would have been luckier, even as a

soldier, if his nose had not induced him to thrust it into Spain and Moscow.

CHAPTER III.

LITTLE HOLLAND

HOUSE-MRS. INCHBALD-HON.

MISS

FOX-BENTHAM AND SIDNEY SMITH-ADDISON ROADGENERAL AND LADY MARY FOX-" HOMER VILLAS,"

- LEE'S

AND CATO COTTAGES"- -ADDISON TERRACE NURSERY KENSINGTON GRAVEL PITS-SWIFT THE

CALLCOTTS-SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE― CAMPDEN GROVE-NEWTON HOUSE, AND SIR ISAAC

NEWTON-CAMPDEN HOUSE-STRANGE HISTORY OF THE

LITTLE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, SON OF PRINCESS, (AFTERWARDS QUEEN) ANNE-"DUKE UPON DUKE,”

OR LECHMERE AND GUISE-ROMANTIC TOWER.

NEAR Holland House, in a portion, still accessible, of the late thoroughfare leading

to it, called, Nightingale Lane, stands Little Holland House; a small mansion compared with the other, but still a mansion; isolated, countryfied, and standing in a garden. Here Mrs. Inchbald once spent a couple of weeks with its occupant, a Mr. Bubb, and dined frequently with him on Sundays (who was he?); and here lived and died Miss Fox, the sister of the late Lord Holland, a lady deserving to be remembered; for everybody seems to have loved her.

she and a young friend,

In her girlhood,

Miss V., a distant

connection of the family, were much in the house of another family connexion, the first Lord Lansdowne, at that time Lord Shelburne the minister, where she became intimate with his Lordship's protégé, Jeremy Bentham, who at that time was still young himself. The future venerable jurist possessed a great deal of vivacity; played on the harpsichord